In reading thru the Ruby Google Group, there seems to be a lot of misconceptions about what should be done inside
of a Rails process and what should be done outside it. Generally if it take any time at all, you should be it outside
the Rails Web Server. In windows you can do a Windows Service, in Linux/Unix you would do a daemon.

This is a example of a windows service that scans cisco switches, finds new nodes, and keep track of there mac
address and there port. Even builds a network map.

Background

It looks like I’m not the only one who plays in IRB a lot. My previous IRB post got some attention from Clinton Nixon at Viget labs. His post on IRB has my earlier tips, as well as some other ones.

If you didn’t get a chance to read my first post, here’s the code

Just a brief interlude from the File Management series while I sort out some time to do some benchmarking.

A common pattern I see in submissions and client-applications is repetitive declarations in controllers. There’s a neat and simple solution for this, but given how often Things like this:

Welcome to the Rails Boxcar blog! We heard this “Internet” thing was cool, and someone mentioned this “blogging” thing, so we figured we’d get our feet wet! ;)